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The Trials and Travels of Willem Leyel. An Account of the Danish East India Company in Tranquebar, 1639-48 By Asta Bredsdorff ISBN 978 87 635 3023 1 180 pp. Hardback · Illustrated · 16 x 23 cm DKK 205 / 27 € Now available Museum Tusculanum Press University of Copenhagen

On November 8, 1639, Willem Leyel left Denmark as commander of the ship Christianshavn bound for the Danish colony of Tranquebar, where he was to take charge of all trading operations of the first Danish East India Company. The voyage, however, became a seemingly endless nightmare of difficulties and disasters.

When Leyel finally reached Tranquebar almost four years later, he found the fortress in a state of complete disrepair. But despite having only a few men in his service, barely any capital and almost no possibility of communicating with the managers of the Company in Copenhagen, Leyelmanaged to turn things around.

Drawing on Leyel’s own letters and papers located in The National Archives in Copenhagen, Asta Bredsdorff ingeniously weaves together the rich narrative strains in order to produce a moving and memorable account of Leyel’s exploits in the East Indies.

The Trials and Travels of Willem Leyel is translated from Danish and it offers a fascinating story of personal fortitude, courage and determination as well as a unique and fantastic glimpse of the conditions in Tranquebar at the time, of life at sea during the dangerous voyages and of Danish history in general.

Asta Bredsdorff was born in southern India. She has written several books on English maritime history. __________________________

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Bøgerne er skrevet på engelsk af: Andreas Gross, Y.Vincent Kumaradoss, Heike Liebau. 1.bog. - The Danish - Halle and English-Halle Mission. Antal sider: 1- 525. The Protestant Mission in India began in the year 1706 with the arrival of two missionaries in Tranquebar. Out of that two mission enterprises - ecumenical and international by nature - developend and lasted for more than hundred yers: the Danish-Halle Mission in Tranquebar and the English- Halle Mission. These missions greatly influenced Protestant Indian Christianity. Volume I depicts the historical background and context of the first Protestant Mission in India. 2.bog. - Christian Mission in the Indian Context. Antal sider: 525-1017. Volume II focuses on the mission work in South India. It is not only the work of the missionaries that is taken into account, but also the roles of the wives, the Indian co-workers and the Indian members of the congregations are explored The relations and conflicts between the Lutheran mission and other Christian denominations are investigated. Finally, the relation between the missionaries and Hinduism is addressed. 3.bog. - Communication between India and Europe. Antal sider 1017- 1574. The cultural exchange between India and Europe took place in the fields of the natural sciences and medicine. The role of language in rural South India was also important for the development of the educational system in India. This volume also includes an appendix with sources of letters and early publications, short biographies and lists of missionaries.

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